Spooked by reports that traffickers are waiting at the Ukraine-Poland border, a Polish woman started an all-women car service to drive Ukrainian refugee women and children to homes or shelters.
When Russia invaded Ukraine, Eka Koliubaieva and her two daughters fled to the U.S., where a Virginia couple took them in after learning about the family's plight from a Facebook post.
When Russia invaded Ukraine eight weeks ago, its war plan failed on multiple fronts. Russia has now regrouped and is focused on the east of Ukraine, hoping to avoid the earlier mistakes.
One of Europe's poorest countries, Moldova has a separatist region that hosts 1,500 Russian troops. Since the Ukraine war, Moldova has applied to join the EU, even as it keeps a policy of neutrality.